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Top Films by Director (F-G)

Rick Famuyiwa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dope 2015 2932

Asghar Farhadi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Separation 2011 548

Valerie Faris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Miss Sunshine1 2006 579

1 Collaborated with Jonathan Dayton.

Bobby Farrelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 There's Something about Mary1 1998 583
2 Kingpin1 1996 2243

1 Collaborated with Peter Farrelly.

Peter Farrelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 There's Something about Mary1 1998 583
2 Dumb & Dumber 1994 1014
3 Green Book 2018 1920
4 Kingpin1 1996 2243

1 Collaborated with Bobby Farrelly.

Forugh Farrokhzad

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The House Is Black 1963 1921

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 471
2 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 1007
3 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 1314
4 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 1684
5 World on a Wire 1973 1917
6 Fox and His Friends 1975 2319
7 Querelle 1982 2659
8 In a Year of 13 Moons 1978 2727

Jon Favreau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Iron Man 2008 376
2 Elf 2003 975
3 The Jungle Book 2016 2379
4 Iron Man 2 2010 2741

John Fawcett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ginger Snaps 2000 2327

Mu Fei

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spring in a Small Town 1948 1952

Paul Feig

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bridesmaids 2011 513
2 Spy 2015 2506

Federico Fellini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 8 1/2 1963 100
2 La Dolce Vita 1960 124
3 La Strada 1954 366
4 Amarcord 1973 554
5 Nights of Cabiria 1957 693
6 I Vitelloni 1953 1863
7 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 2161
8 Fellini Satyricon 1969 2310

Emerald Fennell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Promising Young Woman 2020 2229

Charles Ferguson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Inside Job 2010 1489
2 No End in Sight 2007 2958

Norman Ferguson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 229

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, and Ben Sharpsteen.

Abel Ferrara

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bad Lieutenant 1992 1418
2 King of New York 1990 1568
3 Ms. 45 1981 2838

Louis Feuillade

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Les Vampires 1915 1069

Severin Fiala

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Goodnight Mommy1 2014 2723

1 Collaborated with Veronika Franz.

Glenn Ficarra

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crazy, Stupid, Love.1 2011 1647

1 Collaborated with John Requa.

Todd Field

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Children 2006 2407
2 In the Bedroom 2001 2443

Mike Figgis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 1337

David Fincher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fight Club 1999 71
2 Seven 1995 90
3 The Social Network 2010 301
4 Zodiac 2007 507
5 Gone Girl 2014 762
6 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008 824
7 The Game 1997 1099
8 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 1390

Robert Fiore

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pumping Iron1 1977 1661

1 Collaborated with George Butler.

Terrence Fisher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Horror of Dracula 1958 813
2 The Devil Rides Out 1968 1931
3 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 2042

Robert J. Flaherty

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nanook of the North 1922 587
2 Man of Aran 1934 2730

Ryan Fleck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Captain Marvel1 2019 1871
2 Sugar1 2008 2219

1 Collaborated with Anna Boden.

Richard Fleischer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 950
2 Soylent Green 1973 1061
3 Fantastic Voyage 1966 2090
4 The Narrow Margin 1952 3013

Ruben Fleischer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zombieland 2009 1780

Victor Fleming

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 9
2 Gone with the Wind 1939 31
3 Captains Courageous 1937 1799

Anne Fletcher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Proposal 2009 2277

Dexter Fletcher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rocketman 2019 2842

James Foley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 1205

Ari Folman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Waltz with Bashir 2008 367

John Ford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 53
2 Stagecoach 1939 183
3 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 230
4 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 273
5 My Darling Clementine 1946 450
6 The Quiet Man 1952 848
7 How Green Was My Valley 1941 895
8 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 1013
9 Fort Apache 1948 1118
10 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 1332
11 How the West Was Won1 1962 1519
12 Mister Roberts2 1955 1551
13 They Were Expendable 1945 1642
14 Rio Grande 1950 1916
15 The Iron Horse 1924 2246
16 Wagon Master 1950 2265
17 The Informer 1935 2294

1 Collaborated with Henry Hathaway and George Marshall.
2 Collaborated with Mervyn LeRoy.

Tom Ford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Single Man 2009 1839
2 Nocturnal Animals 2016 2701

Milos Forman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 39
2 Amadeus 1984 190
3 Hair 1979 1937
4 Loves of a Blonde 1965 1966
5 The Firemen's Ball 1967 2123
6 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 2732
7 Man on the Moon 1999 3060

Marc Forster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Finding Neverland 2004 1965

Bill Forsyth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Local Hero 1983 1088
2 Gregory's Girl 1980 1131

Bob Fosse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cabaret 1972 257
2 All That Jazz 1979 558
3 Lenny 1974 2270

Jennifer Fox

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Tale 2018 2628

Jonathan Frakes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Trek: First Contact 1996 1327

David France

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 How to Survive a Plague 2012 2094

Georges Franju

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Eyes without a Face 1960 381

Melvin Frank

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Court Jester1 1955 1333

1 Collaborated with Norman Panama.

David Frankel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Devil Wears Prada 2006 1751

John Frankenheimer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 261
2 The Train 1964 860
3 Seconds 1966 901
4 Ronin 1998 1592
5 Seven Days in May 1964 2776

Carl Franklin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 1740
2 One False Move 1991 2150

Sidney Franklin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Good Earth 1937 2992

Veronika Franz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Goodnight Mommy1 2014 2723

1 Collaborated with Severin Fiala.

James Frawley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Muppet Movie 1979 633

Stephen Frears

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 997
2 High Fidelity 2000 1027
3 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 1376
4 The Grifters 1990 2052
5 The Queen 2006 2485
6 Philomena 2013 2859

Charles Frend

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cruel Sea 1953 2350

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 28 Weeks Later 2007 2276

Karl Freund

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mummy 1932 1512

Ron Fricke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Baraka 1992 2158

William Friedkin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Exorcist 1973 62
2 The French Connection 1971 167
3 Cruising 1980 1270
4 Sorcerer 1977 1550
5 The Boys in the Band 1970 1873
6 To Live and Die in L.A. 1985 1967
7 Blue Chips 1994 3002

Jeffrey Friedman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Celluloid Closet1 1995 2240

1 Collaborated with Rob Epstein.

Kinji Fukasaku

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Battle Royale 2000 664

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beasts of No Nation 2015 2014

Lucio Fulci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Beyond 1981 2046

Samuel Fuller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Big Red One 1980 863
2 Pickup on South Street 1953 939
3 Forty Guns 1957 1561
4 Shock Corridor 1963 1624
5 The Steel Helmet 1951 1909
6 The Naked Kiss 1964 2673

Antoine Fuqua

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Training Day 2001 1826

Sidney J. Furie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ipcress File 1965 1336

Shôgo Furuya

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tokyo Godfathers1 2003 2070

1 Collaborated with Satoshi Kon.

Mike Gabriel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pocahontas1 1995 2545

1 Collaborated with Eric Goldberg.

Vincent Gallo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Buffalo '66 1998 2132

Abel Gance

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Napoléon 1927 621

Luis García Berlanga

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Not on Your Life 1963 2952

Alex Garland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ex Machina 2014 686
2 Annihilation 2018 849

Tay Garnett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 1112

Matteo Garrone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gomorrah 2008 1840

Louis J. Gasnier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Reefer Madness 1936 2619

Leon Gast

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 When We Were Kings 1996 523

David Gelb

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jiro Dreams of Sushi 2011 2353

Jean Genet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Un chant d'amour 1950 2173

Terry George

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hotel Rwanda 2004 794

Pietro Germi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Divorce - Italian Style 1961 2687

Clyde Geronimi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cinderella1 1950 817
2 Lady and the Tramp1 1955 836
3 Sleeping Beauty 1959 847
4 One Hundred and One Dalmatians2 1961 885
5 Alice in Wonderland1 1951 1127
6 Peter Pan1 1953 1290

1 Collaborated with Hamilton Luske and Wolfgang Reitherman.
2 Collaborated with Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske.

Sacha Gervasi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Anvil! The Story of Anvil 2008 2590

Greta Gerwig

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lady Bird 2017 416
2 Little Women 2019 661

Octavio Getino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hour of the Furnaces1 1968 2087

1 Collaborated with Fernando E. Solanas.

Ritwik Ghatak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cloud-Capped Star 1960 2482

Bahman Ghobadi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Turtles Can Fly 2004 2299

Alex Gibney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Taxi to the Dark Side 2007 2529
2 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room 2005 2553

Brian Gibson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 What's Love Got to Do with It 1993 2332

Mel Gibson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Braveheart 1995 278
2 Hacksaw Ridge 2016 972
3 Apocalypto 2006 1712
4 The Passion of the Christ 2004 1720

Lewis Gilbert

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 1660
2 Alfie 1966 2122

Craig Gillespie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 I, Tonya 2017 2306

Terry Gilliam

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Monty Python and the Holy Grail1 1975 105
2 Brazil 1985 114
3 Twelve Monkeys 1995 331
4 Time Bandits 1981 821
5 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 1353
6 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988 1726
7 The Fisher King 1991 2638

1 Collaborated with Terry Jones.

Dan Gilroy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nightcrawler 2014 1245

Tony Gilroy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Michael Clayton 2007 2539

Marco Tullio Giordana

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Best of Youth 2003 1024

Rose Glass

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Saint Maud 2019 2642

Lesli Linka Glatter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Now and Then 1995 2943

Jonathan Glazer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Under the Skin 2013 608
2 Sexy Beast 2000 1147

Peter Glenville

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Becket 1964 2820

Will Gluck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Easy A 2010 1412

Jean-Luc Godard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breathless 1960 97
2 Contempt 1963 496
3 Alphaville 1965 636
4 Pierrot le Fou 1965 671
5 My Life to Live 1962 724
6 Band of Outsiders 1964 953
7 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1989 1340
8 Week End 1967 1563
9 Masculine Feminine 1966 1948
10 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 2283
11 Le Petit soldat 1963 2577

Drew Goddard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cabin in the Woods 2011 1052

Eric Goldberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pocahontas1 1995 2545

1 Collaborated with Mike Gabriel.

Gary Goldman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Anastasia1 1997 2814

1 Collaborated with Don Bluth.

Michael Gondry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 56

Josh Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blades of Glory1 2007 3038

1 Collaborated with Will Speck.

Michael Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pillow Talk 1959 1936

Seth Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The King of Kong 2007 1381

Steve Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arthur 1981 3025

Stuart Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Re-Animator 1985 761

Serif Gören

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yol1 1982 2669

1 Collaborated with Yilmaz Güney.

Raja Gosnell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Never Been Kissed 1999 3000

Edmund Goulding

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grand Hotel 1932 1662
2 Nightmare Alley 1947 1844
3 Dark Victory 1939 2942

Ashutosh Gowariker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India 2001 1228

Michael Gracey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Greatest Showman 2017 2540

Debra Granik

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Winter's Bone 2010 709

F. Gary Gray

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday 1995 1253
2 Straight Outta Compton 2015 1986
3 Set It Off 1996 2203
4 The Italian Job 2003 2715

William Greaves

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One 1968 2724

David Gordon Green

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 George Washington 2000 2223

Peter Greenaway

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 1102
2 The Draughtsman's Contract 1982 1707

Paul Greengrass

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 315
2 The Bourne Supremacy 2004 878
3 United 93 2006 1380
4 Captain Phillips 2013 1471
5 Bloody Sunday 2002 2898

Nathan Greno

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tangled1 2010 952

1 Collaborated with Byron Howard.

D.W. Griffith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Intolerance 1916 369
2 The Birth of a Nation 1915 448
3 Broken Blossoms 1919 1275
4 Way Down East 1920 2655

Paul Grimault

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The King and the Mockingbird 1980 2625

J. Mackye Gruber

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Butterfly Effect1 2004 1643

1 Collaborated with Eric Bress.

Luca Guadagnino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Call Me by Your Name 2017 361

Christopher Guest

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Waiting for Guffman 1996 1081
2 Best in Show 2000 1095

Davis Guggenheim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 An Inconvenient Truth 2006 2337

John Guillermin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Towering Inferno 1974 2336

Alain Guiraudie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stranger by the Lake 2013 1404

Yilmaz Güney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yol1 1982 2669

1 Collaborated with Serif Gören.

Bill Gunn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ganja & Hess 1973 3009

James Gunn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 312
2 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2017 1447
3 The Suicide Squad 2021 2093
4 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023 2726

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 1463

Patricio Guzmán

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Battle of Chile: Part 1 1975 1972
2 Nostalgia for the Light 2010 2160
3 The Battle of Chile: Part 2 1976 2221
4 The Battle of Chile: Part 3 1979 2430
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